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Henry Imler October 30th, 2007

…St. Catherine of Siena, when she felt revulsion from
the wounds she was tending, is said to have bitterly reproached
herself. Sound hygiene was incompatible with charity, so she
deliberately drank a bowl of pus.

When I read that, I turned my head to the side and looked into the non-existent camera with a blank expression.

Seriously, though - a cup of pus. Drunk. On Purpose. Makes people. Not use. The period. Correctly.

A)
Duncan is the most boring person on earth. He speech was grammatically
correct, but boring as all get out. “We’ll try to bring another ring
home this year.” Try? No exclamation mark? You serious Duncan? Why
don’t you just go and play flawless basketball and win your 5th title
in 10 years.

B) I am teething in NBA Fantasy Basketball.

C) I don’t know, back to Greek.

D) Ok, at some point, I decided to make this a running post.

E) Jack Nicholson just creeped me the hell out with his commercial for Frank TV.

F) I officially miss Greg Oden.

G) Spurs have 53 points and there is still 5ive minutes left in the 1st half - nice.

H) I am so glad baseball is over for the year… 3 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours!

I) Ok, I loved the Wade / Barkley 5 commercial - “I’ll let you wear my ring for a week?“

J) Spiderman 3 DVD release is the movie event of the year? Honestly fellas!

K) All I wanna do is a boom, boom, just complain about 3rds and the Aorist tense until I drive Meredith crazy!

L) Blazers looked good. Roy looked real good. Brown for the Lakers
is looking good too - Duncan = unstoppable. I hate the Spurs because of
it (and Manu and Mr. Longloria, etc…)

One of these things is not like the Other

Henry Imler October 28th, 2007

Can you figure out what is missing from this picture? —->

Yup, it is the right thingy (seriously, what is it called? Ear bar?)
that runs from the lenses to my ear. Snapped right off as I was
adjusting them while turning into traffic today (that was a fun
scramble). They are not fixable either. The hinge snapped in half.

I can still wear them before I go to bed and stuff, I just can’t
wear them out of the house. Well unless I want to look like half of
Morpheus.

In other news, what do you get when you cross the Dread Pirate
Roberts, Buttercup with Henry and Meredith? A dead sexy couple. We’ll
post some pics soon.

ENTJ

Henry Imler October 27th, 2007

As I was slinking away from doing research on the existence of a
Johannine school to bolster my claim that there was a Thomasine school,
I came across an infernal Jung personality type test.

I scored as an ENTJ, extraverted, intuitive, thinking, judging.
However, I am borderline extraverted (51% vs. introverted 49%),
thinking 51%, (vs feeling 49%), and judging (51% vs perceiving 49%).
All pretty close calls.

My only strong preference was in the intuitive category. I came in with a whopping 62% vs a 38% sensing.

For those of you that know me, does this sound right?

Uh.. just smash ‘em together?

Henry Imler October 26th, 2007

So, the other day I was on the phone with a keyboard and gamepad manufacturer.
We were chatting about this and that (but not the other). The dude on
the other end of the call was a swell guy - very stand-up, if you know
what I mean. And if you don’t just go with it, ω ἀνθρωπος!

So anyway, we were talking products. I gave him a couple of ideas for game graphics to plaster over over-priced mouse pads. He gave me some pointers on how to go about analyzing cryptic statements in the Gospel of Thomas.

As the conversation meandered on, we started talking about how cool
gamepad are. They are like (no, they are not similar to, they actually
are) miniature keyboards designed directly with the keys needed to play
games on. How cool is that!? A demonstration:

See any buttons not used in fraggin’ people? I thought not. Now, as
we were talking, I was voicing my frustration with having to have two
boards with keys on them. You have to have have your gamepad and also
your keyboard. That is two usb ports people. They don’t grow on trees - every one is as precious as rain in Georgia.

As we were tryinng to figure this whole thing out, an idea sprung
into my mind. What if they just smashed the two together? You know,
take out the ole glue gun and what ever tool people use to mess with
computer wires and went to town? You would not really have to worry
about the acetic properties of the amalgamation, because, lets be
honest, these things are not going to be in a room that has access to
direct sunlight (i.e. basements of parents). Just throw on some light
blue backlights and you should be good to go. Kids are still tacking those ugly-as-hell neon lights to their cars and to the pipes in the computers. We’ll be considered hip, or whatever the word is for it now.

This is what we came up with:

When gaming, design, and functionality combine… in a horrible transporter accident.

Now, we were not done yet (and boy am I glad this was a collect
call). We still needed to figure out the pricing. Gamepad usually cost
$20-30; keyboards usually run around 10 bones. Should we just add the
two up and call it a day? Hardly, fools. No, we need to charge extra
for the freed up USB port and the added hipness. You can’t just go and
buy those things at the store, now can you?
(You can’t. I have tried, it does not work.) What we ended up doing is
tacking on another $40 to the combined cost of the two products. They
gotta pay for my collect call somehow.

I give you the Ideazon Merc Stealth Illuminated Gaming Keyboard.
Now ten dollars off; only a cool $79.99. It frees up a USB port so that
you don’t have to go about and buy a $10 one. Save money, look cool,
and frag like a real gamer today.

Poll: Best Sci-Fi Movie of All Time

Henry Imler October 26th, 2007

Please pick one:

A) Serenity

I watched Serenity after class yesterday. It is perfect in every
way, with the exception of the hokeyness between Zoe and Mal before the
final take off. Everything else is movie gold. Love the two poles of
the desire-gone-mad Reavers and the greater-good operative…

Actually I could go on and on about this movie for hours… But I
need to get up at 5:30 to study for my Greek quiz over the cursed third
declension!

Quiz Time-o

Henry Imler October 25th, 2007

Following Hank’s lead, here are a million quizzes! I gotta say, I am very happy with the results.

Which Dark Lord of the Sith are you?

You are Darth Sidious, also known as
Emperor Palpatine. You are the one who nearly exterminated the Jedi and
built the most powerful and largest Empire ever. You were clearly the
most powerful Sith the Galaxy has ever seen. You hold a vast knowledge
of the Dark Side indeed, and that is why you should rate this quiz a
5…

Star Trek: the Next Generation character are you?

You scored as Jean Luc Picard. You are
intellgent and introspective. You like spending quiet time reading or
listening to music. You are a natural leader who prefers diplomacy to
war.

X-Men would you be? (Male Version)

You scored as Professor X. Professor X
ordinarily possesses vast psionic powers, including telepathy; the
ability to induce in others mental illusions, temporary mental or
physical paralysis, and loss of specific memories or total amnesia; the
projection of “mental bolts” to stun or render a person unconscious;
astral projection; and the ability to sense other superhuman mutants
within a small radius. At present Xavier is unable to use his psionic
powers

halo / halo 2 character are you?

You scored as Sergeant Johnson. You are
sergeant johnson, you are in charge of all the marines left on earth,
you are cocky, like to smoke cigars and love a sniper rifle!

What Force User Are You?

You scored as a Qui-Gon Jinn.
Qui-Gon Jinn: The Believer.

Quote of the Day

Henry Imler October 25th, 2007

From the always funny Cracked [dot] com:: The 10 Most Tenuously Connected Movie Sequels [mat. lang].

Best line? A side note on Evan Almighty:

It’s almost like they found it hard to write a family comedy based on the time God got mad and drowned the entire planet.

Updated: Ok, on further review of the article, that whole thing is full of quotable gems:

On Robocop 3:

Peter Weller, the original RoboCop, decided to pass on
the movie. Do you know anything else Peter Weller has been in? The guy
basically faced the choice of being able to afford to eat, or starring
in Robocop 3, and he chose to starve.

On Speed 2:

What are the chances that this poor woman winds up on a
vehicle that gets hijacked by a crazy terrorist played by an actor too
good for the role twice in her life? Really, if your trip gets
interrupted by a guy with a bomb as second time, the problem isn’t
terrorism. It’s you.

On the Blair Witch Project 2:

A handful of college students take a “Blair Witch Tour”
in the town where the first movie took place and crazy stuff happens.
Wait, not crazy. Boring. Boring stuff happens.

Dojo Mojo

Henry Imler October 25th, 2007

Looks like Super Smash Brothers Brawl will allow you to send your friends replay footage.

This is shaping up to be such a great game! Between this and Mario
Kart for the Wii, no work will get done in our household in the 1st
quarter of 2008. Dishes will pile up, schools will expel, jobs will
fire, Meredith and I will get nothing done.